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Dealing with Change in the Connecticut River Valley:
A Design Manual for Conservation and Development
Date completed: 1988
Client: Center for Rural Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Dodson Associates co-authored Dealing with Change
in the Connecticut River Valley: A Design Manual for Conservation and
Development, an award-winning book that has sold over 20,000 copies
throughout North America and overseas, together with Robert Yaro and Randall
Arendt. The Design Manual takes an approach based on specific landscape
types and development scenarios found in the Connecticut River Valley.
It proposes an environmental design approach to development in sensitive
rural landscapes based on historic traditions, ecological factors and
landscape architectural techniques. Dodson Associates was responsible
for concept development, site selection, physical planning and design
techniques, illustration, graphic design and writing of significant portions
of the manual. Dodson Associates has implemented the planning and design
principles developed for the manual in dozens of actual projects.
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Open space development saves farmland and forests while creating attractive, walkable communities. |
Existing village centers can be infilled with new development sited and designed to fit in with traditional patterns. |
Mixed use development in hamlets as an alternative to strip commercial sprawl. |
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© 2002 Dodson Associates, Ltd. Last revised November 2002.